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IBM System Storage™ DS8000 Series

Created specifically for medium and large enterprises, the IBM System Storage™ DS8000 series offers high-capacity storage systems that are designed to deliver a generation-skipping leap in performance, scalability, resiliency and value.

The DS8000 series is designed to provide exceptional performance while adding virtualization capabilities that can help you allocate system resources more effectively and better control application quality of service (QoS). The DS8000 series also offers powerful functions that are designed to help protect data from unforeseen events and maintain data availability, which can benefit businesses that must have round the clock access to information.

•Exceptional flexibility and scalability. The current physical storage capacity of the DS8000 series system can range from 1.1TB to 512TB, and it has an architecture designed to scale to over a petabyte.

•Significant availability enhancements. IBM System Storage FlashCopy®, Global and Metro Mirror functions, and streamlined configuration and management capabilities through the easy-to-use IBM DS Storage Manager are just some of the many additional advanced features of the DS8000 series.

•Innovative design creates impressive performance. With 4Gb fibre technology, the DS8000 models are as much as seven times faster than the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) Model 800.

•Utilizing IBM POWER5+™ processor technology, the DS8000 series delivers the first use of the IBM Virtualization Engine™, which is designed to bring to disk storage systems the logical partition flexibility usually reserved for enterprise-class servers.

Additional information regarding the DS8000 can be found at:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/ds8000/index.html

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